One of the key tasks for this year’s Bonn talks is to agree on how to put into practice the indicators for the Global Goal on Adaptation, which were hurriedly redrafted by governments at the end of COP30 after years of painstaking work by experts.
Making them usable involves drawing up contextual information (metadata) and methodologies for the indicators. They include metrics such as the number of people per 100,000 who are covered by early warning systems or the proportion of the population vulnerable to climate change that have access to mental health and psychosocial support.
There has been some arguing in Bonn over who should do this work. More government negotiators or more technical experts? Should there be an Indigenous Peoples representative on the taskforce?
But the main sticking point – and the one that could prevent any agreement before the talks end today – is, as usual,…
